Rip Van Winkle

短语

里普·万·温克尔(美国作家欧文W. Irving所写一篇故事名及其主人公)

发音

/ˌrɪp van ˈwɪŋk(ə)l/

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A Dutch-American villager who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a changed world, having missed the American Revolution; (by extension) someone or something stuck in the past.

    美国 媒体

词源

From The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving (1819).

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